Minetaro Mochizuki is a prolific, celebrated manga author-illustrator known for manga titles Dragon Head , Zashiki Onna , and the manga adaptation of the Wes Anderson film Isle of Dogs . His works Bataashi Kingyo , Dragon Head , and Shark Skin Man and Peach Hip Girl have been adapted into pulp films. He received a Tezuka Osamu Cultural Prize Award for Excellence, Award for General Manga at the 21st Kodansha Manga Award, and for Chiisakobee , he received an Excellence Award at the 17th Japan Media Arts Festival in 2013 and the prestigious Fauve D'Angoulême: Prix de la Série at the 2017 Angoulême International Comics Festival. He cites heta-uma styles as influence and follows the cult legacy of popular alternative-manga magazine Garo. Mochizuki's own distinct New Wave style has had profound influence on manga authors succeeding him. He is an avant-garde trendsetter in the manga world. Shimizu Satomu, better known by the penname Shugoro Yamamoto, is a Japanese novelist and short-story writer prolific during the Showa period of Japan. Despite the Yamamoto Shugoro Prize being named after him, he modestly refused prestige in his lifetime, noting that his writing for a popular audience should not be considered literature.

His works may be known for adaptation such as the Akira Kurosawa film Sanjuro , an adaptation of the short story Nichinichi hei-an ( Peaceful Days ), and Dodes'ka-den , an adaptation of the book Kisetsu no nai machi ( The Town Without Seasons ). Cult director Takashi Miike also adapted the novel Sabu into film.